Touch Hole Picks!

[Rendezvous Valley Trading]

Some wonderful ideas! Thanks for sharing! Always looking for new stuff to make. That’s one thing that I really love about this hobby/lifestyle. I remember coming home from rendezvous’ with my folks when I was younger and everyone making new things for the next one from something we learned. Always something to learn, or something to make or upgrade to your personal kit.

 

[Marshhawk]

Hmmm .... I'm going to try dental floss guides.

 

[Grenadier1758]

Dental flossing brushes are good for pulling fouling out of the touch hole in a flint lock and the flexibility will allow the dental floss brush to follow the tortuous path that the flash channel makes in a drum and nipple percussion lock.

Harbor Freight has some welding tip brushes that are good for cleaning touch holes. Most nipples are too small for such brushes.
https://www.harborfreight.com/airbrush-cleaning-brushes-5-piece-68155.html

 

[Smokey Plainsman]

Does driving a mower to the liquor store count?
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Driving a riding lawnmower to get a case of beer from the drive thru liquor store is classic Americana.

 

[le125verne]

Getar (guitar) wire works wonderfully well.

 

[Powder Flask Collector]

Got an antique horn (handcrafted from Europe) with a vent pick at the stopper.
Seems not to have been unusual





This type of horn was rather popular in the end of the 18th century

 

[Rob M.]

@pacanis, I do too, but don't tell anybody else. I don't want to derail the thread.

I do three ...f&%$ em . I have a nice neat T.H. pick I picked up at some rendezvous decades ago but ...paper clip hides nice in the Pou h and works d@mn good ....

 

[Fisherking]

I made one for one of my horns today

 

[TDM]

I made one for one of my horns today

Looks great! I gotta try that one of these days.

 

[Fisherking]

I see now that it has some powder still stuck to the glue. lol

 

[TDM]

I see now that it has some powder still stuck to the glue. lol

Gives it character.